Cardinals Underscore Peace, Unity and Listening as Pope Leo XIV Opens Extraordinary Consistory
Cardinals who spoke to the Register as they entered the consistory all said they welcomed the Pope’s decision to host the two-day meeting.
Participants in the Jan. 7-8 extraordinary consistory in Rome shared their thoughts with the Register Wednesday on Pope Leo XIV’s first major meeting with the College of Cardinals since his election in May.
“It will be a moment of grace, of sharing, of deepening, and of listening on various topics,” predicted Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto, as he walked from his Rome residence to the Synod Hall in the Paul VI Hall to attend the gathering’s opening session. “I’m going with an open heart, let’s see how it develops.”
Despite some concerns that the extraordinary consistory might be too close to the Feast of the Epiphany and that the time for assembly interventions (just 100 minutes in total) may be too short, a large majority of the world’s cardinals (170 in total) are attending the Jan. 7-8 meeting.
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